No reviews due.

Syllabus

As we may think (V. Bush, Atlantic Monthly, July 1945)
A brief history of the Internet (Leiner et al)
On Distributed Communications Networks (Baran, 1962), IMP spec (BBN, 1976)

Networking review, Grand Challenges

Where to look for project ideas

Project partner "Speed dating" micro-presentations

No reviews due.

Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn. A protocol for packet network intercommunication. IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 22 No. 5, May 1974.

David Clark, The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols. Proc. SIGCOMM 1988.

J.H. Saltzer, D.P. Reed and D.D. Clark. End-to-End Arguments in System Design. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems, Vol. 2, No. 4, Nov 1984, pp. 277-288

Congestion Avoidance and Control (Jacobson, SIGCOMM 1988) Note: You need not read the appendices of this paper.

Dah-Ming Chiu and Raj Jain. Analysis of the Increase and Decrease Algorithms for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 17, No. 1, June 1989, pp. 1-14.

Assignment 1 released (pdf)

Why flow-completion time is the right metric (Dukkipati, Tech Rep 2005; CCR 2006)

Flow Rate Fairness: Dismantling a Religion (Briscoe, CCR April 2007)

Fair Queueing (Demers et al, SIGCOMM 1989), Congestion Control for High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks (Katabi et al, SIGCOMM 2002)

Assignment 1 due 11:00 am CT

DCTCP (Alizadeh et al, SIGCOMM 2010), PCC (Dong et al, NSDI 2015)

D3 (Wilson et al, SIGCOMM'11), PDQ (Hong et al., SIGCOMM'12), pFabric (Alizadeh et al., SIGCOMM'13)

50-Gb/s IP Router (Partridge et al., ToN 1998)

Tag Switching Architecture Overview (Rekhter, Davie, Rosen, Swallow, Farinacci, Katz, 1997), RouteBricks (Dobrescu, SOSP 2009), PacketShader (Han, SIGCOMM 2010)

Project proposals due 11 am by email to instructor (instructions)

DEFO (Hartert et al, SIGCOMM 2015)

TeXCP (Kandula, SIGCOMM 2005)

BGP routing policies in ISP networks (Caesar and Rexford, IEEE Network Magazine, Nov/Dec 2005)

Anatomy of a Large European IXP (Ager et al., SIGCOMM 2012)

InterTubes (Durairajan et al, SIGCOMM 2015), 10 lessons from 10 years (Roughan, JSAC 2011)

OpenFlow (McKeown et al, 2008)

Fabric: A Retrospective on Evolving SDN (Casado et al, HotSDN 2012)

Recommended video, no review: The Future of Networking, and the Past of Protocols (Shenker, ONS 2011)

Routing Control Platform (Caesar, NSDI 2005), NOX (Gude, CCR 2008), ONIX (Koponen, OSDI 2010)

B4: Experience with a Globally-Deployed Software Defined WAN (Jain et al, SIGCOMM 2013)

SWAN (Hong, SIGCOMM 2013), Ethane (Casado, SIGCOMM 2007), SoftRAN (Gudipati, HotSDN 2013)

Network Virtualization in Multi-tenant Datacenters (Koponen et al, NSDI 2014)

Frenetic (Foster et al, ICFP 2011)

PGA (Prakash et al, SIGCOMM 2015), Abstractions for Network Update (Foster et al, SIGCOMM 2012)

End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet (Paxson, SIGCOMM 1996)

Ensuring Connectivity via Data Plane Mechanisms (Liu, NSDI 2013), Failure-Carrying Packets (Lakshminarayanan, SIGCOMM 2007), End-to-End Effects (Savage et al, SIGCOMM 1999), Consensus Routing (John, NSDI 2008), SafeGuard (Li, CoNEXT 2009), R-BGP (Kushman, NSDI 2007), Packet Re-cycling (Sae Lor, Hotnets 2010)

Network games

Selfish routing in Internet-like environments (Qiu, SIGCOMM 2003)

Stable Paths Problem (Griffin, ToN 2002), Selfish Routing (Roughgarden, JACM 2002)

Pick either one: How Secure are Secure Interdomain Routing Protocols? (Goldberg, SIGCOMM 2010), Survey of BGP security (Butler, Proc IEEE, 2010)

Prefix Hijacking and Interception (Ballani, SIGCOMM 2007), Pretty Good BGP (Karlin, Computer Networks, 2008), Listen and Whisper (Subramanian, NSDI 2004)

Data center network architecture

Post-lecture field trip: 1:00 pm at the National Petascale Computing Facility, 1725 S Oak St., Champaign

Scalable, Commodity DC Net Arch (Al Fares et al, SIGCOMM 2008)

VL2 (Greenberg et al, SIGCOMM 2009), PortLand (Mysore et al, SIGCOMM 2009), BCube (Guo et al, SIGCOMM 2009), Jellyfish (Singla et al, NSDI 2012)

Low Latency via Redundancy (Vulimiri et al, CoNEXT 2013), Scaling Memcache at Facebook (Nishtala et al., NSDI 2013), Speeding up request-response workflows (Jalaparti et al, SIGCOMM 2013)

Packet Transactions (Sivaraman et al, SIGCOMM 2016)

P4 (Bosshart et al, CCR July 2014)

A Case for a Coordinated Internet Video Control Plane (Liu et al, SIGCOMM 2012)

Understanding the Impact of Video Quality on User Engagement (Dobrian, SIGCOMM 2011), Experiences with CoralCDN: A Five-Year Operational View (Freedman, NSDI 2010), BitTorrent incentives (Levin, SIGCOMM 2008)

Assignment 2 released (pdf)

No assigned reading

Ethereum Lightning Network and Beyond (McCone, 2015; video is optional)

Assignment 2 due 11am CT

Towards a comprehensive picture of the Great Firewall's DNS censorship (Anonymous, FOCI 2014)

The Collateral Damage of Internet Censorship by DNS Injection (Anonymous, CCR 2011; see also public review and presentation), An Untold Story of Middleboxes in Cellular Networks (Wang, Qian, Xu, Mao, Zhang, SIGCOMM 2011), Internet Inter-Domain Traffic (Labovitz, SIGCOMM 2010), California Fault Lines (Turner, SIGCOMM 2010), Delayed Internet Routing Convergence (Labovitz, ToN 2001), Impact of Routing Events (Wang, SIGCOMM 2006), Reverse traceroute (Katz-Bassett, NSDI 2010), Broadband Internet performance: a view from the gateway (Sundaresan, SIGCOMM 2011)

Balancing accountability and privacy in the network (Naylor et al, SIGCOMM 2014)

Tor instead of IP (Liu, Han, Krishnamurthy, Anderson, HotNets 2011), Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow's Internet (Clark, Transactions in Networking, 2005), Accountable Internet Protocol (Anderson, SIGCOMM 2008), HTTP as the Narrow Waist (Popa, Hotnets 2010), Pathlets (Godfrey, SIGCOMM 2009), Data-Oriented Network Architecture (Koponen, SIGCOMM 2007), Networking Named Content (Jacobson, CoNEXT 2009), Software-Defined Internet Architecture (Raghavan et al, Hotnets 2012)